Vladimir Nabokov

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Nabokov Society Eveents at MLA-AATSEEL: Washington D.C. Dec. 2000
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There will be two Nabokov Society panels at MLA:

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PANEL (#162): "Cross-Dressing: Nabokov as Novelist, Nabokov as
Lepidopterist"

DATE/TIME: THURSDAY December 28, 2000
10:15am - 11:30am>
LOCATION: Wilson B, Marriott Wardman Park


#1
Paper: "Nabokov's Butterflies: The Artistic Legacy"

Presenter: Brian Boyd (University of Auckland)
(Brian Boyd is unable to attend, but his paper
will be read and questions responded to by Donald
Barton Johnson)

#2
Paper: "Recognizing Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Legacy"

Presenters: Kurt Johnson (Florida State Collection of
Arthropods) & Steve Coates (The New York Times)

#3
Paper: "Erotic Entomology in Ada"

Presenter: Liana Ashenden (Cambridge University)


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"Vladimir Nabokov: Open Session". Also at the Marriot, Thomas Paine Room,
12-1:15.

1. Dana Dragunoiu (Toronto) "Cincinnatus C.'s 'Gnostical Turpitude' and
A.A. Bogdanov's 'Socially Organized Experience'
2. David Stuart Rutledge (New Orleans) "Nabokov's Flaws: The Metaphysics of
Mistakes"
3. David A. Galef (Mississippi) "Nabokov in Fat City"
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The International Vladimir Nabokov Society also offers a panel at the
concurrent (with MLA) Annual Convention of the American Association of
Teachers of Slavic & E. European Languages (AATSEEL) which takes place at
the Capital Hilton at 16th & K St.

Chair: Charles Nicol, University of Washington
Slot: December 29, 2000, 8:00–10:00 a.m.

Paper Title: Nabokov’s Scientists in The Gift
Author: Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee

Paper Title: Vladimir Nabokov’s Apprenticeship in André Gide’s “Science of
Illumination”: From The Counterfeiters to The Gift
Author: Leonid Livak, Davidson College

Paper Title: Nabokov’s Otherworldly Mermaid: “Spring in Fialta”
Author: Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, University of Rochester

Paper Title: Planes of Reality in Nabokov’s Pnin
Author: Natalia Lechtchenko, Brown University


And also:

Panel: Literature in Exile

Paper Title: Modern Exile and Spatial Form: Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor: A
Family Chronicle
Author: Anita Kondoyanidi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania